swag rport.

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I’m pretty sure if I flipped through my high school history books, I’d find some stories about things that took place in the past. They all happened. Certainly no one could just pretend like those events never occurred. They would never get away with it, right?

Well, maybe not for you or I; but, if your name happenes to be Wiz Khalifa, and you happen to be one of the most consistently hot rappers in the game, well in that case, you might just give it a try.

You catch that? 15 seconds into the interview and he's already talking about how he "hates blunts!" But that shouldn't come as any surprise. Everyone knows that Taylor Gang does not, under any circumstances, smoke one single blunt. Anyone who has sort of paid attention to a Wiz album while spitting game on a girl at a frat party knows that much. Bro.

From Wiz’s earliest mixtapes, his unique style of storytelling has included tales of fast cars, money, hoes and clothes...but most of all weed. However, listeners who have been down with Wiz since the jump may have noticed a very clear swing in his preferred smoking method from blunt blowin’ with the best of ‘em to a blunt free environment.

In fact, if alcoholics could kick the bottle like Wiz dumped blunts, your neighborhood AA meetings would be a ghost town.

What's that in your hand, big homie? You tryin' to pass that or what?

So what.the.fuck happened? The turning point comes in 2009, when Wiz “headed down to New Orleans to fuck with Spitta” on the collaboration mixtape: ‘How Fly.’ Curren$y the Hot Spitta, unlike Wiz, had denounced blunts, once and for all, years prior. The New Orleans rapper is a very public proponent of joints in favor of the blunt which he claims to be a much less healthy option.

It's on the same ‘How Fly’ mixtape that Wiz commits to joints and leaves blunts in the rear view for good. While I can already hear the haters typing their angry emails to Swagrport now: “what about Wiz blowin’ blunts all over the next two albums?”...but follow me...son. The Burn After Rolling mixtape likely contained many tracks from sessions spanning the previous months or even year of his life as rappers tend to do on mixtapes. Meanwhile, Deal or No Deal was a studio release, which means it was tied-up in studio revisions for months. During this time Wiz was getting active on his mixtape game, thus: Taylor Gang’s “hazy” transition period.  

By the time we get to April 14th, 2010’s release of the ridiculously solid ‘Kush and Orange Juice’ mixtape, all the previous material of the summer of 2009 was on wax, and weeks later Wiz had the tray tables and seatbacks in their full upright position on his rocket ship to critical acclaim. On ‘Kush and Orange Juice’, he explicitly references smoking joints an astonishing 33 times. To put this number in perspective; he had only used the word 35 times during his last 9 mixtapes TOTAL. Meanwhile, over K&OJ's 20 tracks, he clearly states that he most certainly does not smoke blunts 3 times. A trend that would continue.

Wiz has now expanded into related businesses to capitalize on his image as the public “smokes-men” for joints. The blunt wraps have been left in the past, never to be uncovered by the casual listener without a deep interest in Wiz’s back catalog.

So don’t get it twisted for one Pittsburgh second. Taylor Gang will not, for any reason, ever smoke blunts. But that don’t change the fact that you did, dog.

I’m just sayin’.

Quick note on methodology: Yes, this swagrporter did, in fact, listen to every single Wiz song ever made and count by hand. No, this was probably not the most efficient way to perform this analysis. But that's all...well...history now. 

Joint references include: Joint, zig zags, J.O.B.s and any other paper of choice

Blunt references include: Blunt, Swisher Sweet, Dutch Masters, Cigarillios, and any other 7/11 favorite blunt wrap